Chicago School of Architecture A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925

Name: Chicago School of Architecture A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925
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ISBN: 9780226114552

ISBN-10: 0226114554

ISBN-13: 9780226114552

Edition: 1973

Authors: Carl W. Condit

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This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 452
Size: 0.69" wide x 0.95" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Architecture in the Nineteenth Century



Chicago: 1871



New Forms in Traditional Materials



Jenney and the New Structural Technique



Burnham and Root



D. H. Burnham and Company



Holabird and Roche



Adler and Sullivan



In the Wake of the Pioneers



Hotels and Apartments



The Chicago School in the Twentieth Century


Bibliography


Index